Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

- Marx, Karl

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

10.

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

11.

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

12.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

13.

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace

14.

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

15.

He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

16.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

17.

Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

18.

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Koch, Sally

19.

A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

20.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

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Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

23.

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

24.

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

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Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody

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There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

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Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

28.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

29.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

30.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

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When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

32.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

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One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

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What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

38.

Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

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Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

43.

We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

44.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

45.

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

46.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

48.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.